Miss Whiskers’ New Toy

Lookie! Lookie! It’s an 8-Harness 45″ Kyra Floor Loom! Hooray!

Isn’t she a beauty?

She’s heddle-tastic!

It zigs! It zags! It’s treadling magic!

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Resolute.

New Years’ Resolutions? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
o Blog. duh.
o Exercise. duh.
o Cook more meals.
o Drink tea! Out of my teapot!
o Which goes with: Read more. My mom read 29 books this year (I’m so proud), and I’m pretty sure that’s more than I read.
o Which goes with: Write more. Note the books. Journal. Letters. Blog. (Duh.)
o [...]

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A Spot of Blog

Saturday last myself and two lovely ladies from the spinning/fleecey group trekked to Daft Dames, aka House of Cone Yarn. I was quite restrained and only bought a mess of bobbins, because my color sampler kit recommends having 18 bobbins on hand, and one pound of a reddy orangey flake cotton to try my [...]

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A Picker Upper

On this sort of sad day … tigers … former prime ministers … here’s my mom’s favorite commercial, resulting in all variations of “Push it. Push it real good.”

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Getting Ready …

In honor of all those people who want to see some blogging action … two things, on the way home, at Wegman’s.
1. I had a huge boatload of stuff, including the Christmas Ham, in my cart at the checkout, and the dude behind me had exactly one package of bologna. So I let him go [...]

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I am so cool.

Please note that that’s a Pitts, and that Pitts is located in New Zealand. Whoot!

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Question

Should I make the poncho, or the vest? The colorway is Plum. Help!

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Stay Tuned …

Here’s a little teaser for you …

Mt. Ngauruhoe (“Mount Doom” for you Lord of the Rings people) in the background.

And here we are atop Fox Glacier. Or at least standing sort of on the middle of it. Via helicopter, mind you. So there.
No really, I totally intend to do some blogging of our grand [...]

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